PRESIDENT REAGAN'S SPEECH TO WESTERN HEMISPHERE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS--JANUARY 24,1985, PRESS GUIDANCE

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• Publication Date: January 25, 1985
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1 Executive Registry
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President Reagan's Speech to Western He~,nis here Democratic
a ers-- anuary 24,1985, Press ui ance
This morning the President spoke to a group of Western Hemisphere
legislative leaders from 21 democracies and reaffirmed his three
mutually reipforcing policy purposes in Latin America and qave
examples of PS actions under each:
(1) encouragement of democracy;
(2) efforts to improve living conditions and the economies;
(3) helping friendly governments defend themselves against
Soviet bloc, Cuban/Nicaraguan-sponsored subversipn.
Essentially all elements of the speech repeatep statements the
President has made in his many previous speeches on Latin
America including his May 8, 1984 speech to the Council of the
Americas (where he gave an overview of his policy in Latin
America), his may 9, 1984 speech on Central America delivered on
national television and his December 4, 1984 welcoming statchent
to President Lusinchi of Venezuela.
Q: Support for Nicaraguan freedom fighters apd the right of
self-defense under international law--a n!w-argupent7
A: Note the President was speaking generally al)out Any
countries which might be supporting the freedom fighters; he
was not speaking specifically about the UF. The two
sentences on this in the January 24, 1985 speech were as
follows;
"The subversion we're talking about violates international
law; the Organization of American States, irk the past, has
enacted sanctions against Cuba for such a